Display control of classified content based on flexible interface E-paper conformation

ABSTRACT

A system includes, but is not limited to one or more conformation sensor modules configured to direct acquisition of first information associated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of a flexible interface containing electronic device and one or more display control modules configured to direct control of display of one or more portions of the flexible interface containing electronic device regarding display of second information having one or more classifications in response to the first information associated with the one or more changes in the one or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronic device. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present application is related to and claims the benefit of theearliest available effective filing date(s) from the following listedapplication(s) (the “Related Applications”) (e.g., claims earliestavailable priority dates for other than provisional patent applicationsor claims benefits under 35 USC §119(e) for provisional patentapplications, for any and all parent, grandparent, great-grandparent,etc. applications of the Related Application(s)). All subject matter ofthe Related Applications and of any and all parent, grandparent,great-grandparent, etc. applications of the Related Applications isincorporated herein by reference to the extent such subject matter isnot inconsistent herewith.

RELATED APPLICATIONS

-   -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/231,303, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL OF CLASSIFIED CONTENT BASED ON E-PAPER CONFORMATION,        naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 29, Aug., 2008 now U.S. Pat. No. 8,235,280, or        is an application of which a currently co-pending application is        entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/284,340, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL OF CLASSIFIED CONTENT BASED ON E-PAPER CONFORMATION,        naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 19, Sep., 2008 now U.S. Pat. No. 8,272,571, or        is an application of which a currently co-pending application is        entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/283,607, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL OF CLASSIFIED CONTENT BASED ON E-PAPER CONFORMATION,        naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 11, Sep., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/283,608, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL OF CLASSIFIED CONTENT BASED ON E-PAPER CONFORMATION,        naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 12, Sep., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/284,621, entitled E-PAPER        APPLICATION CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS,        naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 22, Sep., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/284,709, entitled E-PAPER        APPLICATION CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS,        naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 23, Sep., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/286,116, entitled E-PAPER        APPLICATION CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS,        naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 25, Sep., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/286,115, entitled E-PAPER        APPLICATION CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS,        naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 26, Sep., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/287,383, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS, naming        ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 07, Oct., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/287,684, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS, naming        ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 09, Oct., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/287,685, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS, naming        ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 10, Oct., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/288,010, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS, naming        ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 14, Oct., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/291,400, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS, naming        ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 07, Nov., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/291,540, entitled E-PAPER DISPLAY        CONTROL BASED ON CONFORMATION SEQUENCE STATUS, naming        ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 10, Nov., 2008, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/313,028, entitled E-PAPER        EXTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD, naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN,        EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN, ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A.        MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as inventors, filed 14, Nov.,        2008 now U.S. Pat. No. 8,279,199, or is an application of which        a currently co-pending application is entitled to the benefit of        the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. 12/313,673, entitled E-PAPER        EXTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD, naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN,        EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN, ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A.        MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as inventors, filed 20, Nov.,        2008, which is currently co-pending, or is an application of        which a currently co-pending application is entitled to the        benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. TO BE ASSIGNED, entitled DISPLAY        CONTROL OF CLASSIFIED CONTENT BASED ON FLEXIBLE DISPLAY        CONTAINING ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONFORMATION, naming ALEXANDER J.        COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN, RICHARD T. LORD,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 27, May, 2009, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. TO BE ASSIGNED, entitled DISPLAY        CONTROL OF CLASSIFIED CONTENT BASED ON FLEXIBLE DISPLAY        CONTAINING ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONFORMATION, naming ALEXANDER J.        COHEN, EDWARD K. Y. JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN, RICHARD T. LORD,        ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A. MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as        inventors, filed 28, May, 2009, which is currently co-pending,        or is an application of which a currently co-pending application        is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.    -   For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the        present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of U.S.        patent application Ser. No. TO BE ASSIGNED, entitled DISPLAY        CONTROL OF CLASSIFIED CONTENT BASED ON FLEXIBLE INTERFACE        E-PAPER CONFORMATION, naming ALEXANDER J. COHEN, EDWARD K. Y.        JUNG, ROYCE A. LEVIEN, RICHARD T. LORD, ROBERT W. LORD, MARK A.        MALAMUD AND JOHN D. RINALDO, JR. as inventors, filed 29, May,        2009, which is currently co-pending, or is an application of        which a currently co-pending application is entitled to the        benefit of the filing date.        The United States Patent Office (USPTO) has published a notice        to the effect that the USPTO's computer programs require that        patent applicants reference both a serial number and indicate        whether an application is a continuation or        continuation-in-part. Stephen G. Kunin, Benefit of Prior-Filed        Application, USPTO Official Gazette Mar. 18, 2003, available at        http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/2003/week11/patbene.htm.        The present Applicant Entity (hereinafter “Applicant”) has        provided above a specific reference to the application(s) from        which priority is being claimed as recited by statute. Applicant        understands that the statute is unambiguous in its specific        reference language and does not require either a serial number        or any characterization, such as “continuation” or        “continuation-in-part,” for claiming priority to U.S. patent        applications. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Applicant        understands that the USPTO's computer programs have certain data        entry requirements, and hence Applicant is designating the        present application as a continuation-in-part of its parent        applications as set forth above, but expressly points out that        such designations are not to be construed in any way as any type        of commentary and/or admission as to whether or not the present        application contains any new matter in addition to the matter of        its parent application(s).

SUMMARY

A method includes, but is not limited to: one or more conformationsensor modules configured to direct acquisition of first informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of a flexible interfacecontaining electronic device and one or more display control modulesconfigured to direct control of display of one or more portions of theflexible interface containing electronic device regarding display ofsecond information having one or more classifications in response to thefirst information associated with the one or more changes in the one ormore conformations of the one or more portions of the one or moreregions of the flexible interface containing electronic device. Inaddition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in theclaims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

In one or more various aspects, related systems include but are notlimited to circuitry and/or programming for effecting theherein-referenced method aspects; the circuitry and/or programming canbe virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmwareconfigured to effect the herein-referenced method aspects depending uponthe design choices of the system designer.

A system includes, but is not limited to: circuitry for one or moreconformation sensor modules configured to direct acquisition of firstinformation associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of aflexible interface containing electronic device and circuitry for one ormore display control modules configured to direct control of display ofone or more portions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice regarding display of second information having one or moreclassifications in response to the first information associated with theone or more changes in the one or more conformations of the one or moreportions of the one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspectsare described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of thepresent disclosure.

A system includes, but is not limited to: means for one or moreconformation sensor modules configured to direct acquisition of firstinformation associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of aflexible interface containing electronic device and means for one ormore display control modules configured to direct control of display ofone or more portions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice regarding display of second information having one or moreclassifications in response to the first information associated with theone or more changes in the one or more conformations of the one or moreportions of the one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspectsare described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of thepresent disclosure.

The foregoing summary is illustrative only and is not intended to be inany way limiting. In addition to the illustrative aspects, embodiments,and features described above, further aspects, embodiments, and featureswill become apparent by reference to the drawings and the followingdetailed description.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 is block diagram of an intra-e-paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device shown in an environment asoptionally associated through information flows with other intra-e-paperassemblies or other flexible interface containing electronic devices andextra-e-paper assemblies.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing further detail.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a content unit of the exemplary implementation of the intra-e-paperassembly or other flexible interface containing electronic device ofFIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a sensor unit of the exemplary implementation of the intra-e-paperassembly or other flexible interface containing electronic device ofFIG. 2.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a recognition unit of the exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 2.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof an application unit of the exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 2.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a communication unit of the exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 2.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a conformation unit of the exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 2.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a display unit of the exemplary implementation of the intra-e-paperassembly or other flexible interface containing electronic device ofFIG. 2.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a user interface unit of the exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 2.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing detail of exemplary implementationsof intra-e-paper modules of the exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 2.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing detail of exemplary implementationsof intra-e-paper modules of the exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 2.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of an exemplary implementation of one of theoptional extra-e-paper assemblies of FIG. 1 showing further detail.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a content unit of the exemplary implementation of the extra-e-paperassembly of FIG. 13.

FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a sensor unit of the exemplary implementation of the extra-e-paperassembly of FIG. 13.

FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a recognition unit of the exemplary implementation of theextra-e-paper assembly of FIG. 13.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof an application unit of the exemplary implementation of theextra-e-paper assembly of FIG. 13.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a communication unit of the exemplary implementation of theextra-e-paper assembly of FIG. 13.

FIG. 19 is a block diagram showing detail of an exemplary implementationof a user interface unit of the exemplary implementation of theextra-e-paper assembly of FIG. 13.

FIG. 20 is a schematic diagram depicting regions of an exemplaryimplementation of an intra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interfacecontaining electronic device.

FIG. 21 is a side elevational sectional view of an exemplaryimplementation of the intra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interfacecontaining electronic device of FIG. 1.

FIG. 22 is a top plan view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 is a partially folded state.

FIG. 23 is a side elevational view of the exemplary implementation ofthe intra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device of FIG. 22.

FIG. 24 is a side elevational view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing selection capability through a conformation.

FIG. 25 is a side elevational view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing association between regions due to a depictedconformation.

FIG. 26 is a series of side elevational views of an exemplaryimplementation of the intra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interfacecontaining electronic device of FIG. 1 showing a sequence of depictedconformations.

FIG. 27 is a top plan view of exemplary implementations of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing conformation based upon interconnection betweenthe exemplary implementations.

FIG. 28 is a side elevational view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing an exemplary draping type of conformation.

FIG. 29 is a side elevational view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing an exemplary wrapped type of conformation.

FIG. 30 is a side elevational view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing an exemplary type of transient conformationthrough an exemplary scraping action resultant in curvilinear input.

FIG. 31 is a side elevational view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing an exemplary rolled type of conformation.

FIG. 32 is a side elevational view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing an exemplary hinge status of the exemplaryimplementation in an exemplary folded state.

FIG. 33 is a side elevational view of an exemplary implementation of theintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice of FIG. 1 showing an exemplary bend radius status of theexemplary implementation in an exemplary folded state.

FIG. 34 is a high-level flowchart illustrating an operational flow O10representing exemplary operations related to one or more conformationsensor modules configured to direct acquisition of first informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of a flexible interfacecontaining electronic device and one or more display control modulesconfigured to direct control of display of one or more portions of theflexible interface containing electronic device regarding display ofsecond information having one or more classifications in response to thefirst information associated with the one or more changes in the one ormore conformations of the one or more portions of the one or moreregions of the flexible interface containing electronic device at leastassociated with exemplary implementations of the intra-e-paper assemblyor other flexible interface containing electronic device of FIG. 1.

FIG. 35 is a high-level flowchart including exemplary implementations ofoperation O11 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 36 is a high-level flowchart including exemplary implementations ofoperation O11 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 37 is a high-level flowchart including exemplary implementations ofoperation O11 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 38 is a high-level flowchart including exemplary implementations ofoperation O11 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 39 is a high-level flowchart including exemplary implementations ofoperation O11 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 40 is a high-level flowchart including exemplary implementations ofoperation O11 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 41 is a high-level flowchart including an exemplary implementationof operation O11 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 42 is a high-level flowchart including exemplary implementations ofoperation O11 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 43 is a high-level flowchart including an exemplary implementationof operation O12 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 44 is a high-level flowchart including an exemplary implementationof operation O12 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 45 is a high-level flowchart including an exemplary implementationof operation O12 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 46 is a high-level flowchart including an exemplary implementationof operation O12 of FIG. 34.

FIG. 47 illustrates a partial view of a system S100 that includes acomputer program for executing a computer process on a computing device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In the following detailed description, reference is made to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part hereof. In the drawings,similar symbols typically identify similar components, unless contextdictates otherwise. The illustrative embodiments described in thedetailed description, drawings, and claims are not meant to be limiting.Other embodiments may be utilized, and other changes may be made,without departing from the spirit or scope of the subject matterpresented here.

An exemplary environment is depicted in FIG. 1 in which one or moreaspects of various embodiments may be implemented. In the illustratedenvironment, an exemplary system 100 may include at least anintra-e-paper assembly or other flexible interface containing electronicdevice (herein “e-paper”) 102 for display communication, storage,manipulation, broadcast, or other use of information, including visual,auditory, or otherwise oriented, based upon conformation of the e-paperand/or classification based upon conformation of the e-paper and/orclassification of the information being considered for display or otheruse.

Some exemplary implementations of the e-paper 102 may utilize variousdisplay aspects related to technology commonly referred to as“electronic paper,” “e-paper,” “electronic ink,” and “e-ink” such asplate type electronics using liquid crystal electronics or organicelectroluminescence electronics. Some exemplary implementations may useone or more thin and/or foldable electronic circuit boards to provide amore paper-like flexibility for the e-paper 102 without need for hingedconnections between portions or regions of the e-paper. Otherimplementations of the e-paper may also have alone or in combinationwith the flexible portions more rigid type portions such as with theplate type electronics in which various portions or regions of thee-paper 102 are coupled together with mechanical connectors such ashinges or micro-hinges or other coupling mechanisms. Some exemplaryimplementations may have one or more batteries mounted thereon tofurnish power for changing displayed content. Some exemplaryimplementations may require power for maintaining the displayed content.Other exemplary implementations may have display aspects with a memoryfunction in lieu of such power requirements.

Some exemplary implementations of the e-paper 102 may utilize displayaspects of microcapsule electrophoretic or twist ball type electronics.An exemplary microcapsule-electrophoretic display unit implementationmay not require power for maintaining the displayed content.

In some exemplary implementations, black (or other colored particles)charged to negative polarity and white (or other colored particles)charged to positive polarity may be contained in transparentmicrocapsules that are positioned between films having a transparentelectrode such as indium tin oxide (ITO). When a voltage is used toapply negative electric charge to a specific portions of microcapsules,the white (or other colored particles) move to a lower microcapsuleportion and the black (or other colored) particles) electrophoreticallymigrate toward an upper microcapsule portion. Consequently, an image ofwhite (or one or more other colors) and black (or one or more othercolors) may be displayed on the exemplary implementation of the e-paper102. When positive electric charge is applied to an entire surfacedisplay layer and/or an internal display layer beneath the surfacedisplay layer of the e-paper 102, the white particles may move to anupper portion of a part of the microcapsule. Consequently, the surfacebecomes white, which can be used to delete an image.Microcapsule-electrophoretic exemplary versions of the e-paper 102 mayrequire power to move the white and black particles at the time ofrewrite. However, because the white and black particles normally stay onthe electrode due to electrostatic adsorption or intermolecular force,power may not be required to maintain displayed content akin to a memoryfunction.

An exemplary twist-ball (Gyricon bead) implementation of the e-paper 102may use balls having a spherical diameter of 10 micrometers to 100micrometers, which can be painted, respectively, in two colors (forexample, white and black) for each hemisphere, have charged states (plusand minus) corresponding to the respective colors, and may be buried ina transparent insulating sheet put between a pair of electrodes. Ballspainted in two colors may be supported in an insulating liquid such assilicon oil in a cavity slightly larger than the ball diameter so thatapplied voltage rotates the charged ball to display one of the paintedcolors. Since the rotated ball can be positionally fixed byelectrostatic adsorption, if the applied voltage is removed, displayedcontent may remain without continuing to apply power. Other aspects ofapproaches to e-paper displays can be used by other implementations ofthe e-paper 102. For instance, a bendable A4 sized display panel by LGPhilips of South Korea reportedly measures 35.9-centimeters diagonally,is 0.3-millimeter thick, and can display up to 4,096 colors whilemaintaining the energy efficient qualities that inevitably come withusing energy only when the image changes. Supporting e-paper displayaspects can be further found in various technical documents such asInternational PCT Application Publication Nos. WO2007/111382;WO2006/040725; U.S. Published Patent Application Nos. 2007/0242033;2007/0247422; 2008/0129647; and U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,577,496; 7,195,170.

Exemplary implementations of the system 100 may also include otherinstances of the e-paper 102, which may exchange information betweeneach other through inter-intra information flows 103. The inter-intrainformation flows 103 may be supported through radio frequencycommunication, electrical surface contact, radio frequencyidentification (RFID), fiber optical, infrared, wireless networkprotocols, or other.

The system 100 may also include one or more instances of extra-e-paperassemblies (herein “external devices”) 104, which may exchangeinformation between each other through inter-extra information flows105. One or more of the external devices 104 may receive information toone or more of the e-papers 102 through intra-extra information flow 106and may send information to one or more of the e-papers throughextra-intra information flow 108.

An exemplary implementation of the e-paper 102 is shown in FIG. 2 asoptionally having a content unit 112, a sensor unit 114, a recognitionunit 116, an application unit 118, a communication unit 120, aconformation unit 122, a display unit 124, and a user interface 126. Auser 128 is shown interacting with the e-paper 102 such as throughvisual information retrieval, physical manipulation of the e-paper, orother interaction.

An exemplary implementation of the content unit 112 is shown in FIG. 3as optionally having a content control 130, a content storage 132, and acontent interface 134. Further shown in FIG. 3, an exemplaryimplementation of the content control 130 optionally has a contentprocessor 136 with a content logic 138, and a content memory 140.

An exemplary implementation of the sensor unit 114 is shown in FIG. 4 asoptionally having a sensor control 142, a sensor 144, and a sensorinterface 146. Further shown in FIG. 4, an exemplary implementation ofthe sensor control 142 optionally has a sensor processor 148 with asensor logic 150, and a sensor memory 152. Further shown in FIG. 4 areexemplary implementations of the sensor 144 optionally including astrain sensor 144 a, a stress sensor 144 b, an optical fiber sensor 144c, a surface sensor 144 d, a force sensor 144 e, and a gyroscopic sensor144 f.

An exemplary implementation of the recognition unit 116 is shown in FIG.5 as optionally having a recognition control 154, a recognition engine156, and a recognition interface 158. Further shown in FIG. 5, anexemplary implementation of the recognition control 154 optionally has arecognition processor 160 with a recognition logic 162, and arecognition memory 164.

An exemplary implementation of the application unit 118 is shown in FIG.6 as optionally having an application control 166, an applicationstorage 168, and an application interface 170. Further shown in FIG. 6,an exemplary implementation of the application control 166 optionallyhas an application processor 172 with an application logic 174, and anapplication memory 176.

An exemplary implementation of the communication unit 120 is shown inFIG. 7 as optionally having a communication control 178, a communicationreceiver 180, and a communication transmitter 182. Further shown in FIG.7, an exemplary implementation of the communication control 178optionally has a communication processor 184 with a communication logic186, and a communication memory 188.

An exemplary implementation of the conformation unit 122 is shown inFIG. 8 as optionally having a conformation control 190, conformationhardware 192, and a conformation interface 194. Further shown in FIG. 8,an exemplary implementation of the conformation control 190 optionallyhas a conformation processor 196 with a conformation logic 198, and aconformation memory 200.

An exemplary implementation of the display unit 124 is shown in FIG. 9as optionally having a display control 202, display hardware 204, and adisplay interface 206. Further shown in FIG. 9, an exemplaryimplementation of the display control 202 optionally has a displayprocessor 208 with a display logic 210, and a display memory 212.

An exemplary implementation of the user interface unit 126 is shown inFIG. 10 as optionally having a user interface control 214, userinterface receiver 216, and a user interface transmitter 218. Furthershown in FIG. 10, an exemplary implementation of the user interfacecontrol 202 optionally has a user interface processor 220 with a userinterface logic 222, and a user interface memory 224.

Exemplary implementations of modules of the intra-e-paper modules 127 ofthe user interface unit 126 is shown in FIG. 11 as optionally having aconformation sensor module 302, a display control module 304. aconformation detection module 306, a conformation strain module 308, aconformation stress module 310, a conformation calibration module 312, aconformation pattern module 314, a surface contact module 316, aconformation sequence module 318, a conformation geometry module 320, aconformation indicia module 324, an optical fiber module 326, aconformation association module 328, a conformation signal module 330, aconformation selection module 332, an origami-like folding module 334, afolding sequence module 336, an origami-like shape module 338, a bendangle module 342, a bend number module 344, a conformation force module346, a conformation transient module 348, a conformation persistentmodule 350, a conformation gesture module 356, a conformation connectionmodule 357, a conformation draping module 358, a conformation wrappingmodule 359, a conformation curvilinear module 360, a conformationrolling module 361, a conformation hinge module 362, a bend radiusmodule 363, a fold ratio module 364, and other modules 365.

The conformation sensor module 302 is configured to direct acquisitionof first information such as one or more conformation sensor modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of first information associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of a flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the e-paper 102 of FIG. 2.

The display control module 304 of FIG. 11 is configured to directcontrol of display of one or more portions, such as display layers 608of FIG. 19, of an electronic paper assembly or other flexible interfacecontaining electronic device, such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20 of an electronic paperassembly or other flexible interface containing electronic device orother flexible display containing electronic device, such as the e-paper102 of FIG. 2, regarding display of second information having one ormore classifications, such as private content 620 and/or public content622 of FIG. 23 in response to the first information associated with theone or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or moreregions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexible interfacecontaining electronic device.

The conformation detection module 306 is configured to directacquisition of detection information such as one or more conformationdetection modules configured to direct acquisition of detection of oneor more one or more changes in conformations of one or more portions ofone or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation strain module 308 is configured to direct acquisitionof strain information such as one or more conformation strain modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of strain information associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation stress module 310 is configured to direct acquisitionof stress information such as one or more conformation stress modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of stress information associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation calibration module 312 is configured to directacquisition of calibration related information such as one or moreconformation calibration modules configured to direct acquisition ofcalibration related information associated with one or more changes inone or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regionsof the flexible interface containing electronic device such as theregions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 ofFIG. 20.

The conformation pattern module 314 configured to direct acquisition ofpattern information such as one or more conformation pattern modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of pattern information associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The surface contact module 316 is configured to direct acquisition ofsurface contact information such as one or more surface contact modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of surface contact informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation sequence module 318 is configured to direct acquisitionof sequence information such as one or more conformation sequencemodules configured to direct acquisition of sequence informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation geometry module 320 is configured to direct acquisitionof geometrical information such as one or more conformation geometrymodules configured to direct acquisition of geometrical informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation indicia module 324 is configured to direct acquisitionof indicia information such as one or more conformation indiciaconfigured to direct acquisition of information related to predeterminedindicia associated with one or more changes in one or more conformationsof one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The optical fiber module 326 is configured to direct acquisition ofoptical fiber derived information such as one or more optical fibermodules configured to direct acquisition of optical fiber derivedinformation associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device such as the regions 604of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation association module 328 is configured to directacquisition of association information such as one or more conformationassociation modules configured to direct acquisition of informationbased on one or more changes in one or more associations between two ormore of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device associated with one ormore changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the flexible interface containing electronic devicesuch as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 of thee-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation signal module 330 is configured to direct acquisitionof signals such as one or more conformation signal modules configured todirect acquisition of signals from one or more embedded sensors such asone or more of the sensors 144 of FIG. 4.

The conformation selection module 332 is configured to directacquisition of selection information such as one or more conformationselection modules configured to direct acquisition of selectioninformation associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device associated with one ormore conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device.

The origami-like folding module 334 is configured to direct acquisitionof origami-like folding information (the term “origami-like” can includeany sort of information related to one or more shaped objectrepresentations involving through geometric fold and/or crease patternswithout gluing or cutting, such as origami, zhezhi, etc.) such as one ormore origami-like folding modules configured to direct acquisition oforigami-like folding information associated with one or more changes inone or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regionsof the flexible interface containing electronic device such as theregions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 ofFIG. 20.

The folding sequence module 336 is configured to direct acquisition of afolding sequence order such as one or more folding sequence modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of one or more changes in a foldingsequence order of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device such as the regions 604of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The origami-like shape module 338 is configured to direct acquisition ofan origami-like resultant shape information such as one or moreorigami-like shape modules configured to direct acquisition of one ormore changes in an origami-like shape resultant from one or more changesin folding of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device such as the regions 604of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The bend angle module 342 is configured to direct acquisition of angleof bend information such as one or more bend angle modules configured todirect acquisition of angle of bend information associated with one ormore changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the flexible interface containing electronic devicesuch as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 of thee-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The bend number module 344 is configured to direct acquisition of bendnumber information such as one or more bend number modules configured todirect acquisition of bend number information associated with one ormore changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the flexible interface containing electronic devicesuch as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 of thee-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation force module 346 is configured to direct acquisition offorce information such as one or more configuration force modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of force information associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation transient module 348 is configured to directacquisition of substantially transient information such as one or moreconformation transient modules configured to direct acquisition ofsubstantially transient information associated with one or more changesin one or more substantially transient conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation persistent module 350 is configured to directacquisition of substantially persistent information such as one or moreconformation persistent modules configured to direct acquisition ofsubstantially persistent information associated with one or more changesin one or more substantially persistent conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20. Transientconformations and persistent conformations can be relative to oneanother depending upon the context or environment that the e-paper 102is found in. In general, transient can mean lasting a short time whereaspersistent can be defined as existing or remaining in the same shape foran indefinitely long time. For instance, in the context of reading thee-paper 102, a flick of the e-paper may cause a brief conformationduring the flicking action as compared to a conformation in which thee-paper is being read. Relatively speaking, in the context of thereading, the flicking action can be viewed as transient whereas theconformation during reading of the e-paper 102 can be viewed aspersistent. In another context, a transition from one conformation toanother of the e-paper 102 can be viewed as a series of transientconformations whereas the before and after conformations subject to thechange can be viewed as persistent. In some contexts transient could bein terms of seconds and persistent would be in terms of minutes. Inother contexts transient could be in terms of minutes and persistentwould be in terms of hours. In other contexts transient could be interms of hours and persistent could be in terms of days. In othercontexts transient could be in terms of fractions of seconds andpersistent in terms of seconds. Other contexts can also be envisioned asbeing applicable. In some implementations duration parameterscharacterizing transient and persistent could be predetermined by theuser 128 of the e-paper 102 and stored in the conformation memory 200.

The conformation gesture module 356 is configured to direct acquisitionof gestured information such as one or more conformation gesture modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of gestured information associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation connection module 357 is configured to directacquisition of connection information such as one or more conformationconnection modules configured to direct acquisition of connectioninformation between two or more of the portions of the one or moreregions of the flexible interface containing electronic deviceassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation draping module 358 is configured to direct acquisitionof draping information such as one or more conformation draping modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of draping information associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation wrapping module 359 is configured to direct acquisitionof wrapping information such as one or more conformation wrappingmodules configured to direct acquisition of wrapping informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation curvilinear module 360 is configured to directacquisition of curvilinear information such as one or more conformationcurvilinear modules configured to direct acquisition of informationderived through sensing one or more changes in a curvilinear pattern offorce imparted upon one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device such as the regions 604of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation rolling module 361 is configured to direct acquisitionof rolling information such as one or more configuration rolling modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of rolling information associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation hinge module 362 is configured to direct acquisition ofhinge status information such as one or more conformation hinge modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of hinge status information associatedwith one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The bend radius module 363 is configured to direct filtering ofinformation based upon radius of bend such as one or more bend radiusmodules configured to direct filtering of information based upon radiusof bend associated with one or more changes in one or more conformationsof one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The fold ratio module 364 is configured to direct acquisition of foldedto unfolded ratio information such as one or more fold ratio modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of folded to unfolded ratio informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

An exemplary implementation of the other modules 365 is shown in FIG. 12as optionally having a bend location module 366, a private contentmodule blocking module 367, a public content module 368, a privatecontent module 369, a non-private content module 370, a non-publiccontent module 371, a conformation comparison module 372, a comparisondisplay module 373, a classification selection module 374, a selectiondisplay module 375, a non-classification selection module 376, and another selection display module 377.

The bend location module 366 is configured to direct acquisition of bendlocation information such as one or more bend location modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of bend location information associatedwith one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The private content module blocking module 367 is configured to directdisplay of public content, such as public content 622 of FIG. 23, on oneor more portions of a surface display layer, such as surface display 608c of FIG. 21, to be viewed from a display surface, such as displaysurface 612 of FIG. 23, and to block an internal display layer, such asinternal display layer 608 c of FIG. 21, from displaying privatecontent, such as private content 520 of FIG. 23, that would otherwise beviewed from the display surface, such as the display surface 612, frombeing viewed from the display surface.

The public content module 368 is configured to direct display of publiccontent, such as public content 622 of FIG. 23, on one or more portionsof an electronic paper assembly or other flexible display containingelectronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The private content module 369 is configured to direct display ofprivate content, such as private content 620 of FIG. 23, on one or moreportions of an electronic paper assembly or other flexible displaycontaining electronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102.

The non-private content module 370 is configured to direct display ofother than private content, such as public content 622 of FIG. 23, onone or more portions of an electronic paper assembly or other flexibledisplay containing electronic device such as the regions 604 of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The non-public content module 371 is configured to direct display ofother than public content, such as private content 620 of FIG. 23, onone or more portions of an electronic paper assembly or other flexibledisplay containing electronic device such as the regions 604 of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The conformation comparison module 372 is configured to direct comparingof stored data, such as data stored in the conformation logic 198 ofFIG. 8, with the first information associated with one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20.

The comparison display module 373 is configured to direct displaying onone or more portions of an electronic paper assembly or other flexibledisplay containing electronic device such as the regions 604 of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20, in responseto the one or more conformation comparison modules configured to directcomparing of stored data with the first information associated with oneor more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions ofone or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice.

The classification selection module 374 is configured to directselecting one or more of the classifications, such as private content620 and/or public content 622 of FIG. 23 of the second informationhaving one or more classifications.

The selection display module 375 is configured to direct displaying onone or more portions of an electronic paper assembly or other flexibledisplay containing electronic device such as the regions 604 of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20, in responseto the one or more classification selection modules directing one ormore classification selection modules configured to direct selecting oneor more of the classifications of the second information having one ormore classifications.

The non-classification selection module 376 is configured to directselecting other than one or more of the classifications, such as otherthan private content 620 and/or public content 622 of FIG. 23 of thesecond information having one or more classifications.

The other selection display module 377 is configured to directdisplaying on one or more portions of an electronic paper assembly orother flexible display containing electronic device such as the regions604 of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20,in response to the one or more non-classification selection modulesconfigured to direct selecting other than one or more of theclassifications of the second information having one or moreclassifications.

An exemplary implementation of the external device 104 is shown in FIG.13 as optionally having a content unit 402, a sensor unit 404, arecognition unit 406, an application unit 408, a communication unit 410,and a user interface 412. A user 414 is shown interacting with theexternal device 104 such as through visual information retrieval,physical manipulation of the external device, or other interaction.

An exemplary implementation of the content unit 402 is shown in FIG. 14as optionally having a content control 426, a content storage 428, and acontent interface 430. Further shown in FIG. 14, an exemplaryimplementation of the content control 426 optionally has a contentprocessor 432 with a content logic 434, and a content memory 438.

An exemplary implementation of the sensor unit 404 is shown in FIG. 15as optionally having a sensor control 438, a sensor 440, and a sensorinterface 442. Further shown in FIG. 15, an exemplary implementation ofthe sensor control 438 optionally has a sensor processor 444 with asensor logic 446, and a sensor memory 448.

An exemplary implementation of the recognition unit 406 is shown in FIG.16 as optionally having a recognition control 450, a recognition engine452, and a recognition interface 454. Further shown in FIG. 16, anexemplary implementation of the recognition control 450 optionally has arecognition processor 456 with a recognition logic 458, and arecognition memory 460.

An exemplary implementation of the application unit 408 is shown in FIG.17 as optionally having an application control 462, an applicationstorage 464, and an application interface 466. Further shown in FIG. 17,an exemplary implementation of the application control 462 optionallyhas an application processor 468 with an application logic 470, and anapplication memory 472.

An exemplary implementation of the communication unit 410 is shown inFIG. 18 as optionally having a communication control 474, acommunication receiver 476, and a communication transmitter 478. Furthershown in FIG. 18, an exemplary implementation of the communicationcontrol 474 optionally has a communication processor 480 with acommunication logic 482, and a communication memory 484.

An exemplary implementation of the user interface unit 412 is shown inFIG. 19 as optionally having a user interface control 486, userinterface receiver 488, and a user interface transmitter 490. Furthershown in FIG. 19, an exemplary implementation of the user interfacecontrol 486 optionally has a user interface processor 492 with a userinterface logic 494, and a user interface memory 496.

A top plan view of an exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 isshown in FIG. 20 as having a plurality of regions 604 separated byborders 606. The number of the regions and the shape of each of theregions can vary depending upon particular implementations of thee-paper. Consequently, the number and shapes of the borders 606 can alsovary based on specifics of a particular implementation of the e-paper102.

The regions 604 and the borders 606 may be either virtual or physical.Virtual implementations may be based upon a user display selection todisplay on a plurality of different areas of the e-paper 602 variousfiles or other items having different content. There may be a one to onecorrelation between these areas and the regions 604 but in other casesother sorts of correlations are possible. Another example of virtualimplementations of the regions 604 and the borders 606 may includedisplaying different user interfaces to different computer programs ondifferent areas of a display. At least some times the virtualimplementations of the regions 604 and the borders 606 can be readilymodified or replaced outright. Numerous other examples exist for virtualimplementations of the regions 604 and the borders 606.

Physical implementations may include a portion of the borders 606 beingphysically demarcating either structural or otherwise. For instance, atleast a portion of the regions 604 of the e-paper 602 may be separatee-paper portions separated by the borders 606 with the borders beinghinges or micro-hinges or other physical connections.

With both the virtual and the physical implementations of the regions604 and the borders 606 of the e-paper 602, conformations such as bends,folds, or other may exist along the borders but may also exist withinone or more of the regions themselves. Conformations may refer toparticular localized physical aspects such as bends, folds, twists, etcoccurring in one or more of the regions 604 or along one or more of theborders 606. In other implementations, one or more conformations mayrefer to general shapes of the e-paper 602 as resultant from one or moreother localized conformations of the e-paper.

The exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 is shown in FIG. 21to include a collection of display layers 608: a surface layer 608 a, aninternal layer 608 b, and a surface layer 608 c. In some implementationseach of the display layers 608 are able to display information underindependent control. For instance, the surface layer 608 a may be usedto either block or allow viewing from a display surface 610 ofinformation being displayed by the internal layer 608 b or the surfacelayer 608 a and the internal layer 608 b may be used in conjunction todisplay information together from the display surface 610. Meanwhile,the surface layer 608 c could be displaying information from a displaysurface 612. Sensors 614, implementations of the sensor 144, are showncoupled with the display layers 608 of the e-paper 602. In otherimplementations, one or more of the sensors 144 can be located in otherconfigurations relative to the display layers 608 such as alternatingwith the display layers in juxtaposition or otherwise internally locatedalong with one or more of the display layers.

As shown in FIG. 22, the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102may include a border 604 b between a region 604 a coupled with one ofthe sensors 614 and a region 604 b coupled to another one of the sensors614. As shown in FIG. 23, the exemplary implementation 602 may bepartially folded along the border 604 b. The exemplary implementation602 may also include another implementation of the sensor 144 in theform of a sensor 616 (such as for stress, strain, force, acceleration,etc) and a sensor 618 (such as optical fiber based). These alternativesensor implementations including the sensor 616 and the sensor 618 maybe generally represented by the sensors 614 as well as the sensor 144.The exemplary implementation 602 may include capabilities to displayinformation based upon a classification of the information and ane-paper conformation such as shown in FIG. 23 in which a display ofinformation 620 having a classification of “private” occurs from thedisplay surface 610 (being the inside surface of the illustrated foldedconformation) and in which a display of information 620 having aclassification of “public” classification occurs from the displaysurface 612 (being the outside surface of the illustrated foldedconformation). An exemplary angle of bend 624 and an angle of bend 624 aare is also noted in FIG. 23 since they may be included with otherindicators such as a change of conformation between the bend 624 and thebend 624 a to be used to describe a particular e-paper conformation.

Conformation of the exemplary implementation 602 may be used to assistwith indicating a selection by the user 128 along with controllingdisplay of information having various classifications. For instance, asshown in FIG. 24, a geometry 625 of an exemplary e-paper conformation ofthe exemplary implementation 602 and a geometry 625 a and/or a changetherebetween as sensed by the sensors 614 may be used to indicate aselection 626 of e-paper function between a television function, apersonal digital assistant function, a cell phone function, a notebookfunction, and an eBook function.

Relative association between two or more portions of the exemplaryimplementation 602 may be used to assist with selection of e-paperfunction, and/or controlling display such as including controllingdisplay of information having various classifications. For instance, asshown in FIG. 25, an exemplary relative association 628 may be sensedbetween two or more of the sensors 614 based upon factors such asseparation distance or other geometrical factors. As shown in FIG. 23 a,an exemplary relative association 628 a may be sensed between thesensors 614 and/or a change in the relative association 628 and therelative association 628 a may be sensed as well.

A time ordered sequence of conformations of the exemplary implementation602 may be used to assist with selection of e-paper function, such asvarious applications to perform, and/or controlling display such asincluding controlling display of information having variousclassifications. For instance, as shown in FIG. 26, an exemplarysequence 630 sensed by the sensors 614 of partial folding of theexemplary implementation 602 to being unfolded to being again partiallyfolded may be used to indicate a selection or otherwise control displaysuch as of display of information having a desired classification. Theexemplary sequence 630 can be indicated in an absolute sense by a seriesof the conformations associated with the sequence or can be indicated ina relative sense by a series of a first change 630 a and a second change630 b that exist between the conformations associated with the sequence.

A coupling type of conformation between two or more instances of theexemplary implementation 602 may be used to assist with selection ofe-paper function, and/or controlling display such as includingcontrolling display of information having various classifications. Forinstance, as shown in FIG. 27, an exemplary coupling conformation 632between exemplary implementations 602 a, 602 b, 602 c, and 602 d of thee-paper 102 as sensed by the sensors 614 may be used to indicate aselection or otherwise control display such as of display of informationhaving a desired classification. Change of a coupling conformation, suchas between the exemplary coupling conformation 632 and an exemplarycoupling conformation 632 a of FIG. 25 can also be used.

A draping type of conformation of the exemplary implementation 602 maybe used to assist with selection of e-paper function, and/or controllingdisplay such as including controlling display of information havingvarious classifications. For instance, as shown in FIG. 28, an exemplarydraping conformation 633 as sensed by the sensors 614 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 over an exemplary object 634 may be used to indicatea selection or otherwise control display such as of display ofinformation having a desired classification. Change of a draping typeconformation, such as between the exemplary draping conformation 633 ofFIG. 26 and an exemplary draping conformation 633 a over an exemplaryobject 634 a of FIG. 26 a can also be used.

A wrapped type of conformation of the exemplary implementation 602 maybe used to assist with selection of e-paper function, and/or controllingdisplay such as including controlling display of information havingvarious classifications. For instance, as shown in FIG. 29, an exemplarywrapped conformation 635 around an exemplary object 636 as sensed by thesensors 614 may be used to indicate a selection or otherwise controldisplay such as of display of information having a desiredclassification. Change of a wrapped type conformation, such as betweenthe exemplary wrapped conformation 635 of FIG. 27 and an exemplarywrapped conformation 635 a around an exemplary object 636 a of FIG. 27 acan also be used.

A transient type of conformation of the exemplary implementation 602such as a scraping action resultant in curvilinear input may be used toassist with selection of e-paper function, and/or controlling displaysuch as including controlling display of information having variousclassifications. For instance, as shown in FIG. 30, an exemplaryinstrument 638 moved in along exemplary path 640 imparting an exemplarytransient conformation 642 having an exemplary scraping conformationaction resultant in a curvilinear conformation input as sensed by thesensors 614 may be used to indicate a selection or otherwise controldisplay such as of display of information having a desiredclassification. Change of a transient conformation 642, such as betweenan exemplary path 640 a and an exemplary path 640 b of FIG. 28 a canalso be used.

A rolled type of conformation of the exemplary implementation 602 may beused to assist with selection of e-paper function, and/or controllingdisplay such as including controlling display of information havingvarious classifications. For instance, as shown in FIG. 31, an exemplaryrolled conformation 643 as sensed by the sensors 614 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 may be used to indicate a selection or otherwisecontrol display such as of display of information having a desiredclassification. Change of a rolled type conformation, such as betweenthe exemplary rolled conformation 643 and an exemplary rolledconformation 643 a of FIG. 29 can also be used.

A hinge status type of conformation of coupling between two or moreinstances of the exemplary implementation 602 may be used to assist withselection of e-paper function, and/or controlling display such asincluding controlling display of information having variousclassifications. For instance, as shown in FIG. 32, a hinge statusconformation 644 sensed by the sensors 614 of a hinge 645 of theexemplary implementation 602 may be used to indicate a selection orotherwise control display such as of display of information having adesired classification. Change of a hinge status type conformation, suchas between the exemplary hinge status conformation 644 and an exemplaryhinge status conformation 644 a of FIG. 30 can also be used.

Bend radius status type of conformation of the exemplary implementation602 may be used to assist with selection of e-paper function, and/orcontrolling display such as including controlling display of informationhaving various classifications. For instance, as shown in FIG. 33, anexemplary bend radius status conformation 646 as sensed by the sensors614 may be used to indicate a selection or otherwise control displaysuch as of display of information having a desired classification.Change of a bend radius status type of conformation, such as between theexemplary bend radius status conformation 646 and an exemplary bendradius status conformation 646 a of FIG. 31 can also be used.

The various components of the e-paper 102 (e.g., the content unit 112,the sensor unit 114, the recognition unit 116, the application unit 118,the communication unit 120, the conformation unit 122, the display unit124, and the user interface 126) and their sub-components and of theexternal device 104 (e.g., the content unit 402, the sensor unit 404,the recognition unit 406, the application unit 408, the communicationunit 410, and the user interface 412) and their sub-components and theother exemplary entities depicted may be embodied by hardware, softwareand/or firmware. For example, in some implementations the content unit112, the recognition unit 116, and the application unit 118, and theirsub-components, may be implemented with a processor (e.g.,microprocessor, controller, and so forth) executing computer readableinstructions (e.g., computer program product) stored in a storage medium(e.g., volatile or non-volatile memory) such as a signal-bearing medium.Alternatively, hardware such as application specific integrated circuit(ASIC) may be employed in order to implement such modules in somealternative implementations.

Following are a series of flowcharts depicting implementations. For easeof understanding, the flowcharts are organized such that the initialflowcharts present implementations via an example implementation andthereafter the following flowcharts present alternate implementationsand/or expansions of the initial flowchart(s) as either sub-componentoperations or additional component operations building on one or moreearlier-presented flowcharts. Those having skill in the art willappreciate that the style of presentation utilized herein (e.g.,beginning with a presentation of a flowchart(s) presenting an exampleimplementation and thereafter providing additions to and/or furtherdetails in subsequent flowcharts) generally allows for a rapid and easyunderstanding of the various process implementations. In addition, thoseskilled in the art will further appreciate that the style ofpresentation used herein also lends itself well to modular and/orobject-oriented program design paradigms.

An operational flow O10 as shown in FIG. 34 represents exampleoperations related to display of information based upon one or morechanges in one or more e-paper configurations and the one or moreclassifications of the information to be displayed. FIG. 34 and thosefigures that follow may have various examples of operational flows, andexplanation may be provided with respect to the above-described examplesof FIGS. 1-33 and/or with respect to other examples and contexts.Nonetheless, it should be understood that the operational flows may beexecuted in a number of other environments and contexts, and/or inmodified versions of FIGS. 1-33. Furthermore, although the variousoperational flows are presented in the sequence(s) illustrated, itshould be understood that the various operations may be performed inother orders than those which are illustrated, or may be performedconcurrently.

FIG. 34

In FIG. 34 and those figures that follow, various operations may bedepicted in a box-within-a-box manner. Such depictions may indicate thatan operation in an internal box may comprise an optional exemplaryimplementation of the operational step illustrated in one or moreexternal boxes. However, it should be understood that internal boxoperations may be viewed as independent operations separate from anyassociated external boxes and may be performed in any sequence withrespect to all other illustrated operations, or may be performedconcurrently.

After a start operation, the operational flow O10 may move to anoperation O11, where one or more conformation sensor modules configuredto direct acquisition of first information associated with one or morechanges in one or more conformations of one or more portions of one ormore regions of a flexible interface containing electronic device maybe, executed by, for example, the sensor unit 114 of the e-paper 102 ofFIG. 2 and/or the acquisition of the first information being directed byone or more conformation sensor modules 302 of FIG. 11. An exemplaryimplementation may include obtaining (e.g. obtaining may be performedthrough one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplaryimplementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4)) first informationassociated with one or more changes in (e.g. change between the angle ofbend 624 and the angle of bend 624 a (see FIG. 23) of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102) one or more conformations (e.g.the one or more of the sensors 614 as exemplary implementations of thesensor 144 may relay the information about change between the angle ofbend 624 and the angle of bend 624 a through the sensor interface 146(see FIG. 4) to the recognition unit 166 (see FIG. 5) through therecognition interface 158 where the recognition engine 156 may determinethat the change between the angle of bend 624 and the angle of bend 624a is associated with one or more conformations as retrieved from theconformation memory 200 (see FIG. 8) through the conformation interface194) of one or more portions of one or more regions (e.g. the region 604a and the region 604 b (see FIGS. 22 and 23) are angularly oriented withone another along the border 606 a) of the electronic paper assembly orother flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. of theimplementation 602 (see FIGS. 20 and 23) of the e-paper 102).

The operational flow O10 may then move to operation O12, where one ormore display control modules configured to direct control of display ofone or more portions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice regarding display of second information having one or moreclassifications in response to the first information associated with theone or more changes in the one or more conformations of the one or moreportions of the one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device may be executed by, for example, the display unit 124of FIG. 9 and/or control of display being directed by one or more of thedisplay control modules 304 of FIG. 11. An exemplary implementation mayinclude controlling display (e.g. the display control 202 can controlthe display hardware 204 (see FIG. 9) to display information on theregion 604 a and the region 604 b (see FIG. 23)) of one or more portionsof the electronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device regarding display of second information having one ormore classifications (e.g. information contained in the content storage132 of the content unit 112 (see FIG. 3)) having a predeterminedclassification (e.g. “private” (see FIG. 23) displayed from the surfacelayer 608 a of the display layers 608 (see FIGS. 21 and 23) having thedisplay surface 610 and having a predetermined classification (e.g.“public” (see FIG. 23) from the surface layer 608 c (see FIGS. 21 and23) having the display surface 610) in response to the first informationassociated with the one or more changes in one or more conformations ofthe one or more portions of the one or more regions of the electronicpaper (e.g. the display control 202 (see FIG. 9) may control display inresponse to communication through the display interface 206 with therecognition unit 116 (see FIG. 5) through the recognition interface 158for recognized one or more changes in one or more conformations (such aschange between the partially folded conformation having the angle ofbend 624 and the partially folded conformation having the angle of bend624 a of FIG. 23) and communication through the display interface withthe content unit 112 (see FIG. 3) through the content interface 134 forinformation of appropriate “public” and “private” content).

FIG. 35

FIG. 35 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO11 of FIG. 34. In particular, FIG. 35 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O11 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operations O1101, O1102, O1103,O1104, and/or O1105, which may be executed generally by, in someinstances, the sensor unit 114 of FIG. 4.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1101 for one or more conformation detectionmodules configured to direct acquisition of detection of one or more oneor more changes in conformations of one or more portions of one or moreregions of the flexible interface containing electronic device. Anexemplary implementation may include one or more of the conformationdetection modules 306 of FIG. 11 directing acquisition of detection suchas detecting (e.g. detecting may be performed by one or more of thesensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations of the sensor 144(see FIG. 4) of the sensor unit 114 obtaining sensing data incombination with the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) through therecognition logic 162 matching conformation detail contained in therecognition memory 164 with the sensing data) one or more changes in oneor more conformations (e.g. change between the partially foldedconformation of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a shown in FIG. 23) of one or more portionsof one or more regions (e.g. the region 604 a and the region 604 b) ofthe electronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper102 of FIG. 23).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1102 for one or more conformation strainmodules configured to direct acquisition of strain informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more of the conformation strain modules 308 of FIG. 11 directingthe acquisition of strain information such as obtaining straininformation (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) asexemplary implementations of the strain sensor 144 a (see FIG. 4) of thesensor 144 may obtain strain information) associated with one or morechanges in one or more conformations of one or more portions of one ormore regions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122(see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformation memory 200 one or moreassociations between strain information to be obtained by the sensors614 and one or more changes in one or more conformations such as changebetween the partially folded conformation of the region 604 a and theregion 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1103 for one or more conformation stressmodules configured to direct acquisition of stress informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more of the stress modules 310 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of stress information such as obtaining stress information(e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplaryimplementations of the stress sensor 144 b (see FIG. 4) of the sensor144 may obtain stress information) associated with one or more changesin one or more conformations of one or more portions of one or moreregions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexible interfacecontaining electronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG.8) may maintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associationsbetween stress information to be obtained by the sensors 614 and one ormore changes in one or more conformations such as change between thepartially folded conformation of the region 604 a and the region 604 bof the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 having the angleof bend 624 and the partially folded conformation having the angle ofbend 624 a).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1104 for one or more conformation calibrationmodules configured to direct acquisition of calibration relatedinformation associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device. An exemplaryimplementation may include one or more of the conformation calibrationmodules 312 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition of calibration relatedinformation such as obtaining calibration related information (e.g. oneor more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations ofthe sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensor information to be comparedby the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensor informationobtained previously as calibrated with respect to predeterminedconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume) associated with one ormore changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122(see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformation memory 200 one or moreassociations between the previously obtained sensor informationcalibrated with respect to one or more changes in predeterminedconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume such as for example thechange between the partially folded conformation of the region 604 a andthe region 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1105 for one or more conformation patternmodules configured to direct acquisition of pattern informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more of the conformation pattern modules 314 of FIG. 11 directingthe acquisition of pattern information such as obtaining patterninformation (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) asexemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtainsensor information to be compared by the recognition engine 156 (seeFIG. 5) with sensor information obtained previously with respect to oneor more predetermined patterns formed by conformations that the e-paper102 may assume) associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenthe sensor information previously obtained with respect to one or morechanges in the one or more predetermined patterns formed byconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume such as for example changebetween the partially folded conformation of the region 604 a and theregion 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a).

FIG. 36

FIG. 36 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO11 of FIG. 34. In particular, FIG. 36 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O11 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operations O1106, O1107, O1108,O1109, and/or O1110, which may be executed generally by, in someinstances, the sensor unit 114 of FIG. 4.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1106 for one or more surface contact modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of surface contact informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more surface contact modules 316 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of surface contact information such as obtaining surfacecontact information (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23)as exemplary implementations of the surface sensor 144 d (see FIG. 4) ofthe sensor 144 may obtain surface contact information) associated withone or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly or otherflexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. the conformationunit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformation memory 200 one ormore associations between surface contact information to be obtained bythe sensors 614 and one or more changes in one or more conformationssuch as change between the partially folded conformation of the region604 a and the region 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of thee-paper 102 having the angle of bend 624 and the partially foldedconformation having the angle of bend 624 a).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1107 for one or more conformation sequencemodules configured to direct acquisition of sequence informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more conformation sequence modules 318 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of sequence information such as obtaining sequenceinformation (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 26) asexemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtainsensor information over one or more periods of time to be compared bythe recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensor information obtainedpreviously over one or more periods of time with respect to one or morepredetermined sequences of two or more conformations that the e-paper102 may assume) associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenthe sensor information previously obtained with respect to one or morechanges in the one or more predetermined sequences formed by one or moreconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume such as the first change630 a and the second change 630 b associated with the exemplary sequence630 of conformations of the region 604 a and the region 604 b of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 occurring in a timeordered sequence as illustrated in FIG. 26).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1108 for one or more conformation geometrymodules configured to direct acquisition of geometrical informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more conformation geometry modules 320 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of geometrical information such as obtaining geometricalinformation (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 24) asexemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtainsensor information regarding the geometry 625 (see FIG. 24) to becompared by the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensorinformation obtained previously with respect to one or morepredetermined geometries formed by conformations that the e-paper 102may assume) associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenthe sensor information previously obtained with respect to the one ormore changes in one or more geometries formed by conformations that thee-paper 102 may assume such as for example change between the geometry625 and the geometry 625 a (see FIG. 24) including the region 604 a andthe region 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper102).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1109 for one or more conformation indiciaconfigured to direct acquisition of information related to predeterminedindicia associated with one or more changes in one or more conformationsof one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more of the conformation indicia modules 324 of FIG. 11 directingthe acquisition of information related to predetermined indicia such asobtaining information related to predetermined indicia (e.g. one or moreof the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations of thesensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensor information to be compared bythe recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with predetermined indicia ofconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume) associated with one ormore changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122(see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformation memory 200 one or moreassociations between the previously obtained sensor informationcalibrated with respect to one or more changes in predeterminedconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume such as for example changebetween the partially folded conformation of the region 604 a and theregion 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1110 for one or more optical fiber modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of optical fiber derived informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more optical fiber modules 326 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of optical fiber derived information such as obtainingoptical fiber derived information (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614(see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations of the optical fiber sensor144 c (see FIG. 4) of the sensor 144 may obtain optical fiber derivedinformation) associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenthe optical fiber derived information to be obtained by the sensors 614and one or more changes in one or more conformations such as changebetween the partially folded conformation of the region 604 a and theregion 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a).

FIG. 37

FIG. 37 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO11 of FIG. 34. In particular, FIG. 37 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O11 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operations O1111, O1113, O1114,and/or O1115, which may be executed generally by, in some instances, thesensor unit 114 of FIG. 4.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1111 for one or more conformation associationmodules configured to direct acquisition of information based on one ormore changes in one or more associations between two or more of the oneor more portions of the one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device associated with one or more changes in oneor more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions ofthe flexible interface containing electronic device. An exemplaryimplementation may include one or more conformation association modules328 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition of information based on one ormore changes in ore or more associations such as obtaining informationbased on one or more changes in one or more associations (e.g. two ormore of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations ofthe sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain information based on one or morechanges in one or more of the associations between the sensorspositioned at various portions of various regions wherein theassociations may be related to factors such as distance, relativestrain, or relative stress between the sensors) associated with one ormore changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122(see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more ofcorrelations between the sensor information regarding change between theone or more of the associations 628 (see FIG. 25) and one or more of theassociations 628 a (see FIG. 25 a) involving the region 604 a and theregion 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1113 for one or more conformation signalmodules configured to direct acquisition of signals from one or moreembedded sensors. An exemplary implementation may include one or moreconformation signal modules 330 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition ofsignals such as receiving signals from embedded sensors (e.g. one ormore of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 30) as exemplary implementations ofthe sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may send obtained sensor information to thesensor control 142 to be further sent through the sensor interface 146to units such as the recognition unit 116 (see FIG. 5) by receipt ofsignals from the sensor interface through the recognition interface 158.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1114 for one or more conformation selectionmodules configured to direct acquisition of selection informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more conformation selection modules 332 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of selection information such as obtaining selectioninformation (e.g. the selection 626 between TV, PDA, cell phone,notebook PC, and eBook functionality (see FIG. 24) may be obtained byhaving the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) use sensor informationfrom one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 24) in conjunction withpredetermined configuration data stored in the conformation memory 200(see FIG. 8) to recognize one or more changes in a predeterminedconformation, which can then be used by the application control 166 (seeFIG. 6) of the application unit 118 to select a functionality per datastored in the application memory 176) associated with one or morechanges in one or more conformations of one or more portions of one ormore regions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device (e.g. change between theconformations of the geometry 625 and the geometry 625 a of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 including the region 604a and the region 604 b as illustrated in FIG. 24).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1115 for one or more origami-like foldingmodules configured to direct acquisition of origami-like foldinginformation associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device. An exemplaryimplementation may include one or more origami-like folding modules 334of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition of origami-like folding informationsuch as obtaining origami-like folding information (e.g. one or more ofthe sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations of the sensor144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensor information to be compared by therecognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensor information obtainedpreviously with respect to one or more predetermined origami-likefolding results formed by conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume)associated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assemblyor other flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. theconformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformationmemory 200 one or more associations between the sensor informationpreviously obtained with respect to one or more changes in the one ormore predetermined origami-like folding results formed by conformationsthat the e-paper 102 may assume) associated with one or more changes inone or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regionsof the electronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (such as for example change between the partiallyfolded conformation of the region 604 a and the region 604 b of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 having the angle of bend624 and the partially folded conformation having the angle of bend 624a).

FIG. 38

FIG. 38 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO11 of FIG. 34. In particular, FIG. 38 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O11 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operations O11151, and/or O11152,which may be executed generally by, in some instances, the sensor unit114 of FIG. 4.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O11151 for one or more folding sequence modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of one or more changes in a foldingsequence order of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device. An exemplaryimplementation may include one or more of the folding sequence modules336 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition of one or more changes infolding sequence order such as obtaining one or more changes in foldingsequence order (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 26) asexemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtainsensor information over one or more periods of time to be compared bythe recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensor information obtainedpreviously over one or more periods of time with respect to one or morechanges in one or more predetermined sequences of one or moreconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume) of one or more portionsof one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly or otherflexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. the conformationunit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformation memory 200 one ormore associations between the sensor information previously obtainedwith respect to the one or more changes in one or more predeterminedfolding sequence order formed by two or more conformations that thee-paper 102 may assume such as the first change 630 a and the secondchange 630 b of the exemplary sequence 630 of conformations representinga folding sequence order of the region 604 a and the region 604 b of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 occurring in a timeordered sequence as illustrated in FIG. 26).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O11152 for one or more origami-like shapemodules configured to direct acquisition of one or more changes in anorigami-like shape resultant from one or more changes in folding of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more origami-like shape modules 338 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of one or more changes in a resultant origami-like shapesuch as obtaining one or more changes in an origami-like shape resultantfrom one or more changes in folding of one or more portions of one ormore regions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device (e.g. one or more of the sensors614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (seeFIG. 4) may obtain sensor information to be compared by the recognitionengine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensor information obtained previously withrespect to one or more changes in one or more resultant origami-likeshapes formed by conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume. Theconformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformationmemory 200 one or more associations between the sensor informationpreviously obtained with respect to one or more changes in the one ormore resultant origami-like shapes formed by conformations that thee-paper 102 may assume such as for example changes between the partiallyfolded conformation of the region 604 a and the region 604 b of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 having the angle of bend624 and the partially folded conformation having the angle of bend 624a).

FIG. 39

FIG. 39 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO11 of FIG. 34. In particular, FIG. 39 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O11 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operations O1116, O1117, O1118,O1119, and/or O1120, which may be executed generally by, in someinstances, the sensor unit 114 of FIG. 4.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1116 for one or more bend angle modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of angle of bend information associatedwith one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device. An exemplary implementation may include one or morebend angle modules 342 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition of angle ofbend information such as obtaining angle of bend information (e.g. oneor more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations ofthe sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) of the sensor unit 114 obtaining sensingdata in combination with the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) throughthe recognition logic 162 matching angle of bend information containedin the recognition memory 164 with the sensing data) associated with oneor more changes in one or more conformations (e.g. the partially foldedconformation of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having an angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformation havingthe angle of bend 624 a shown in FIG. 23) of one or more portions of oneor more regions (e.g. the region 604 a and the region 604 b) of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper102 of FIG. 23).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1117 for one or more bend number modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of bend number information associatedwith one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device. An exemplary implementation may include one or morebend number modules 344 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition of bendnumber information such as obtaining bend number information (e.g. oneor more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 26) as exemplary implementations ofthe sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensor information over one ormore periods of time to be compared by the recognition engine 156 (seeFIG. 5) with sensor information obtained previously over one or moreperiods of time with respect to one or more predetermined bendconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume) associated with one ormore changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122(see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformation memory 200 one or moreassociations between the sensor information previously obtained withrespect to the one or more predetermined bend conformations that thee-paper 102 may assume such as the exemplary sequence 630 ofconformations having a bend number of two of the region 604 a and theregion 604 b of the partially folded conformation of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 having the angle of bend 624 andthe partially folded conformation having the angle of bend 624 a asillustrated in FIG. 26).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1118 for one or more configuration forcemodules configured to direct acquisition of force information associatedwith one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device. An exemplary implementation may include one or moreconformation force modules 346 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition offorce information such as obtaining force information (e.g. one or moreof the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations of theforce sensor 144 e (see FIG. 4) of the sensor 144 may obtain forceinformation) associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenforce information to be obtained by the sensors 614 and one or moreconformations such as change between the partially folded conformationof the region 604 a and the region 604 b of the exemplary implementation602 of the e-paper 102 having the angle of bend 624 and the partiallyfolded conformation having the angle of bend 624 a).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1119 for one or more conformation transientmodules configured to direct acquisition of substantially transientinformation associated with one or more changes in one or moresubstantially transient conformations of one or more portions of one ormore regions of the flexible interface containing electronic device. Anexemplary implementation may include one or more conformation transientmodules 348 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition of substantiallytransient information such as obtaining substantially transientinformation (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 26) asexemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtainsensor information over one or more periods of time to be compared bythe recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensor information obtainedpreviously over one or more periods of time with respect to one or morepredetermined periods of time that are deemed “transient” such as withrespect to an absolute measure of time such as a certain number ofseconds or minutes or such as respect to a relative measure of time suchas how long it would typically take to read a portion of a display,etc.) associated with one or more changes in one or more conformationsof one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paperassembly or other flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g.the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformationmemory 200 one or more associations between the sensor informationpreviously obtained with respect to the one or more predeterminedperiods of time that are deemed “transient” for one or more changes inone or more conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume such aschanges between the partially folded conformation of the region 604 aand the region 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper102 having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a as illustrated in FIG. 26).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1120 for one or more conformation persistentmodules configured to direct acquisition of substantially persistentinformation associated with one or more changes in one or moresubstantially persistent conformations of one or more portions of one ormore regions of the flexible interface containing electronic device. Anexemplary implementation may include one or more conformation persistentmodules 350 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition of substantiallypersistent information such as obtaining substantially persistentinformation (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 26) asexemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtainsensor information over one or more periods of time to be compared bythe recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensor information obtainedpreviously over one or more periods of time with respect to one or morepredetermined periods of time that are deemed “persistent” such as withrespect to an absolute measure of time such as a certain number ofminutes, hours, or days, etc or such as respect to a relative measure oftime such as how long it would typically take to read a portion of abook, etc.) associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenthe sensor information previously obtained with respect to the one ormore predetermined periods of time that are deemed “persistent” for oneor more conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume such as changebetween the partially folded conformation of the region 604 a and theregion 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a as illustrated in FIG. 26).

FIG. 40

FIG. 40 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO11 of FIG. 34. In particular, FIG. 40 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O11 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operations O1121, O1122, O1124,and/or O1125, which may be executed generally by, in some instances, thesensor unit 114 of FIG. 4.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1121 for one or more conformation gesturemodules configured to direct acquisition of gestured informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more gesture modules 356 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition ofgestured information such as obtaining gestured information (e.g. one ormore of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 26) as exemplary implementations ofthe sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensor information at one pointin time or in combination with over one or more periods of time to becompared by the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensorinformation obtained previously at one point in time or in combinationwith over one or more periods of time with respect to one or morevarious types of sensor data such as obtained by the strain sensor 144a, the stress sensor 144 b, the optical fiber sensor 144 c, the surfacesensor 144 d, the force sensor 144 e, and/or the gyroscopic sensor 144 fof the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4)) associated with one or more changes inone or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regionsof the electronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenthe combinations of sensor information previously obtained for one ormore conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume such as changebetween the exemplary partially folded conformation of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of the region 604 a and the region604 b having the angle of bend 624 and the exemplary folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a as illustrated in FIG. 26).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1122 for one or more conformation connectionmodules configured to direct acquisition of connection informationbetween two or more of the portions of the one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device associated with one ormore changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the flexible interface containing electronic device.An exemplary implementation may include one or more conformationconnection modules 357 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition ofconnection information such as obtaining connection information betweentwo or more of the portions (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (seeFIG. 27) may be activated with one or more of a plurality of theexemplary implementations 602 of the e-paper 102 are assembled togetherin particular sorts of coupling conformations such as the couplingconformation 632 of FIG. 27) of the one or more regions of theelectronic paper associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (such as change in connection information between theexemplary coupling conformation 632 of the plurality of the regions 604a and the plurality of the regions 604 b of the exemplary implementation602 of the e-paper 102 and the exemplary coupling conformation 632 ashown in FIG. 27).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1124 for one or more conformation drapingmodules configured to direct acquisition of draping informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more conformation draping modules 358 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of draping information such as obtaining draping information(e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 28) as exemplaryimplementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensorinformation to be compared by the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5)with sensor information obtained previously with respect to one or morepredetermined draping conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume, forexample, by being draped over the object 634 of FIG. 28 or over theobject 634 a of the FIG. 28 a) associated with one or more changes inone or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regionsof the electronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenthe sensor information previously obtained with respect to the one ormore changes in one or more draping conformations that the e-paper 102may assume such as for example change between the exemplary drapingconformation 633 over the object 634 (see FIG. 28) and the exemplarydraping conformation 633 a over the object 634 a (see FIG. 26 a) of theregion 604 a and the region 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1125 for one or more conformation wrappingmodules configured to direct acquisition of wrapping informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more wrapping modules 359 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisition ofwrapping information such as obtaining wrapping information (e.g. one ormore of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 29) as exemplary implementations ofthe sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensor information to be comparedby the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) with sensor informationobtained previously with respect to one or more predetermined wrappingconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume, for example, by beingwrapped around the object 636) associated with one or more changes inone or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regionsof the electronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) maymaintain in the conformation memory 200 one or more associations betweenthe sensor information previously obtained with respect to one or morechanges in one or more wrapped conformations that the e-paper 102 mayassume such as for example change between the exemplary wrappedconformation 635 around the exemplary object 636 (see FIG. 29) and theexemplary wrapped conformation 635 a around the exemplary object 636 a(see FIG. 27 a) of the region 604 a and the region 604 b of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102).

FIG. 41

FIG. 41 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO11 of FIG. 34. In particular, FIG. 41 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O11 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operations O1126, O1127, O1128,O1129, and/or O1130, which may be executed generally by, in someinstances, the sensor unit 114 of FIG. 4.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1126 for one or more conformation curvilinearmodules configured to direct acquisition of information derived throughsensing one or more changes in a curvilinear pattern of force impartedupon one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexibleinterface containing electronic device. An exemplary implementation mayinclude one or more conformation curvilinear modules 360 of FIG. 11directing the acquisition of curvilinear information such as obtaininginformation derived through sensing one or more changes in a curvilinearpattern of force imparted (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG.30) as exemplary implementations of the force sensor 144 e (see FIG. 4)of the sensor 144 may obtain force information such as that imparted bythe exemplary instrument 638 following a path 640) upon one or moreportions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly orother flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. theconformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformationmemory 200 portions of curvilinear patterns of force to be obtained bythe sensors 614 and may also maintain in the content storage 132 (seeFIG. 3) information associated with one or more changes in such portionsof curvilinear patterns of force along the region 604 a and the region604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 forinstance, change between the exemplary path 640 a and the exemplary path640 b).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1127 for one or more configuration rollingmodules configured to direct acquisition of rolling informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more conformation rolling modules 361 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of rolling information such as obtaining rolling information(e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 31) as exemplaryimplementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensorinformation to be compared by the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5)with sensor information obtained previously with respect to one or morepredetermined rolling conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume, forexample, the exemplary rolled conformation 643 (see FIG. 31) associatedwith one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly orother flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. theconformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformationmemory 200 one or more associations between the sensor informationpreviously obtained with respect to one or more changes in the one ormore rolled conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume such as forexample change between the rolled conformation 643 and the rolledconformation 643 a of the region 604 a and the region 604 b of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 shown in FIG. 31).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1128 for one or more conformation hingemodules configured to direct acquisition of hinge status informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more conformation hinge modules 362 of FIG. 11 directing theacquisition of hinge status information such as obtaining hinge statusinformation (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 32) asexemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) of the sensorunit 114 obtaining sensing data in combination with the recognitionengine 156 (see FIG. 5) through the recognition logic 162 matching hingestatus information contained in the recognition memory 164 with thesensing data) associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theelectronic paper assembly or other flexible interface containingelectronic device (e.g. change between the partially folded conformation644 of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of the region604 a and the region 604 b having a hinge status 645 and the partiallyfolded conformation 644 a having hinge status 645 a shown in FIG. 32).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1129 for one or more bend radius modulesconfigured to direct filtering of information based upon radius of bendassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more bend radius modules 363 of FIG. 11 directing the filteringof information such as filtering information based on radius of bend(e.g. the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) may use sensor informationfrom one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 33) in conjunction withpredetermined configuration data stored in the conformation memory 200(see FIG. 8) to recognize a predetermined radius of bend conformation,which can then be used by the content control 130 (see FIG. 3) of thecontent unit 112 to filter information contained in the content memory140) associated with one or more changes in one or more conformations ofone or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paperassembly or other flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g.change between the radius of bend 646 and the radius of bend 646 a ofthe exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 including the region604 a and the region 604 b as illustrated in FIG. 33).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1130 for one or more fold ratio modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of folded to unfolded ratio informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device. An exemplary implementation may includeone or more fold ratio modules 364 of FIG. 11 directing the acquisitionof folded to unfolded ratio information such as obtaining folded tounfolded ratio information (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (seeFIG. 20) as exemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) mayobtain sensor information to be compared by the recognition engine 156(see FIG. 5) with sensor information obtained previously with respect toone or more predetermined folded and unfolded conformations that thee-paper 102 may assume along the borders 606 and/or elsewhere, such asthe various bends and folds shown with the conformations of FIGS. 23,24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, and 33. The conformation processor 196 (seeFIG. 8) of the conformation unit 122 may determine which of the borders606 and/or elsewhere in the regions 604 are folded and/or bent versuswhich are unfolded and/or unbent thereby producing a folded to unfoldedratio) associated with one or more changes in one or more conformationsof one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paperassembly or other flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g.the conformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformationmemory 200 one or more associations between folded to unfolded ratiosand various conformations that the e-paper 102 may assume thereby beingcapably of indicating change between such conformations, such as forexample change between the partially folded conformation of the region604 a and the region 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of thee-paper 102 having the angle of bend 624 and the partially foldedconformation having the angle of bend 624 a shown in FIG. 23).

FIG. 42

FIG. 42 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO11 of FIG. 34. In particular, FIG. 42 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O11 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operation O1131, which may beexecuted generally by, in some instances, the sensor unit 114 of FIG. 4.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O11 mayinclude the operation of O1131 for one or more bend location modulesconfigured to direct acquisition of bend location information associatedwith one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or moreportions of one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device. An exemplary implementation may include one or morebend location modules 366 of FIG. 12 directing the acquisition of bendlocation information such as obtaining bend location information (e.g.one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 20) as exemplaryimplementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) may obtain sensorinformation to be compared by the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5)with sensor information obtained previously with respect to locations onthe e-paper 102 that bends may assume along the borders 606 and/orelsewhere, such as the various bends and folds shown with theconformations of FIGS. 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, and 33. Theconformation processor 196 (see FIG. 8) of the conformation unit 122 maydetermine which of the borders 606 and/or elsewhere in the regions 604are folded and/or bent thereby producing bend location information)associated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assemblyor other flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. theconformation unit 122 (see FIG. 8) may maintain in the conformationmemory 200 one or more associations between bend locations and variousconformations that the e-paper 102 may assume thereby being capable ofindicating change between such conformations, such as for example changebetween the partially folded conformation of the region 604 a and theregion 604 b of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102having the angle of bend 624 and the partially folded conformationhaving the angle of bend 624 a shown in FIG. 23).

FIG. 43

FIG. 43 illustrates various implementations of the exemplary operationO12 of FIG. 35. In particular, FIG. 42 illustrates exampleimplementations where the operation O12 includes one or more additionaloperations including, for example, operations O1201, O1202, O1203,O1204, and/or O1205, which may be executed generally by, in someinstances, the display unit 114 of FIG. 9.

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O12 mayinclude the operation of O1202 for one or more public content modulesconfigured to direct display of public content on one or more portionsof the flexible interface containing electronic device. An exemplaryimplementation may include one or more public content modules 368 ofFIG. 12 directing display of public content such as displaying publiccontent (e.g. information 622 having a classification of “public” (seeFIG. 23) on one or more portions of the flexible display containingelectronic device (e.g. portions of the information 622 having aclassification of “public” may be displayed on such as the regions 604of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O12 mayinclude the operation of O1203 for one or more private content modulesconfigured to direct display of private content on one or more portionsof the flexible interface containing electronic device. An exemplaryimplementation may include one or more private content modules 369 ofFIG. 12 directing display of private content such as displaying privatecontent (e.g. information 620 having a classification of “private” (seeFIG. 23) on one or more portions of the one or more portions of theflexible display containing electronic device (e.g. portions of theinformation 622 having a classification of “public” may be displayed onsuch as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 of thee-paper 102 of FIG. 20).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O12 mayinclude the operation of O1204 for one or more conformation non-privatecontent modules configured to direct display of other than privatecontent on one or more portions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device. An exemplary implementation may include one or moreconformation non-private content modules 370 of FIG. 12 directingdisplay of other than private content such as displaying other thanprivate content (e.g. information 622 having a classification of“public” (“public” is a form of information classification that is otherthan “private”) (see FIG. 23)) on one or more portions of the flexibledisplay containing electronic device (e.g. portions of the information622 having a classification of “public” (“public is a form ofinformation classification that is other than “private”) may bedisplayed on such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20).

For instance, in some implementations, the exemplary operation O12 mayinclude the operation of O1205 for one or more non-public contentmodules configured to direct display of other than public content on oneor more portions of the flexible interface containing electronic device.An exemplary implementation may include one or more non-public contentmodules 371 of FIG. 12 directing display of other than public contentsuch as displaying other than public content on one or more portions ofthe flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. information620 having a classification of “private” (“private” is a form ofinformation classification that is other than “public”) (see FIG. 23))on one or more portions of the flexible display containing electronicdevice (e.g. portions of the information 622 having a classification of“private” (“private” is a form of information classification that isother than “public”) may be displayed on such as the regions 604 of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20).

FIG. 44

FIG. 44 illustrates an example implementation of the exemplary operationO12 of FIG. 34 where the operation O12 includes, for example, operationO1206, which may be executed generally by, in some instances, thedisplay unit 114 of FIG. 9. For instance, in some implementations, theexemplary operation O12 may include the operation of O1206 that mayinclude the operation O12061 for one or more conformation comparisonmodules configured to direct comparing of stored data with the firstinformation associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device and the operation 12062for one or more comparison display modules configured to directdisplaying on one or more portions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device in response to the one or more conformation comparisonmodules configured to direct comparing of stored data with the firstinformation associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of theflexible interface containing electronic device.

An exemplary implementation of the operation O12061 may include one ormore conformation comparison modules 372 of FIG. 12 directing comparingof stored data such as one or more conformation comparison modulesconfigured to direct comparing of stored data with the first informationassociated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of oneor more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interfacecontaining electronic device (e.g. one or more of the sensors 614 (seeFIG. 23) as exemplary implementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4) maysend sensing information (such as stress information, straininformation, force information, optical fiber information, surfacecontact information, gyroscopic information, etc) regarding thepartially folded conformation (see FIG. 23) of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 through the sensor interface 146to the recognition unit 116 (see FIG. 5) through the recognitioninterface 158 whereby the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) comparesthe sensing information with conformation information stored in theconformation memory 200 (see FIG. 8) as accessed by the recognitionengine (see FIG. 5) through the recognition interface and theconformation interface 194 (see FIG. 8)).

An exemplary implementation of the operation O12062 may include one ormore comparison display modules 373 of FIG. 12 directing display on oneor more portions such as displaying on one or more portions of theflexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. the display unit124 (see FIG. 9) may direct display hardware 204 through the displaycontrol 202 to display on the surface layer 608 a and the surface layer608 c (see FIG. 21)) in response to the comparing stored data with thefirst information associated with one or more conformations of one ormore portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly orother flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. after therecognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) compares sensing information fromone or more of the sensors 614 with conformation information stored inthe conformation memory 200 (see FIG. 8), the recognition engine maydirect to the display control 202 through the conformation interface 194and the display interface 206 the above display on the surface layer 608a and the surface layer 608 c).

FIG. 45

FIG. 45 illustrates an example implementation of the exemplary operationO12 of FIG. 34 where the operation O12 includes, for example, operationO1207, which may be executed generally by, in some instances, thedisplay unit 114 of FIG. 9. For instance, in some implementations, theexemplary operation O12 may include the operation of O1207 that mayinclude the operation O12071 for one or more classification selectionmodules configured to direct selecting one or more of theclassifications of the second information having one or moreclassifications and the operation 12072 for one or more selectiondisplay modules configured to direct displaying on one or more portionsof the flexible interface containing electronic device in response tothe selected one or more of the classifications of the secondinformation having one or more classifications.

An exemplary implementation of the operation 12071 may include one ormore classification selection modules 374 of FIG. 12 directing selectionsuch as one or more classification selection modules configured todirect selecting one or more of the classifications of the secondinformation having one or more classifications (e.g. one or more of thesensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplary implementations of the sensor 144(see FIG. 4) may send sensing information (such as stress information,strain information, force information, optical fiber information,surface contact information, gyroscopic information, etc) regarding aconformation (see FIG. 24) of the exemplary implementation 602 of thee-paper 102 through the sensor interface 146 to the recognition unit 116(see FIG. 5) through the recognition interface 158 whereby therecognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) compares the sensing informationwith conformation information stored in the conformation memory 200 (seeFIG. 8) as accessed by the recognition engine (see FIG. 5) through therecognition interface and the conformation interface 194 (see FIG. 8).Based upon the comparison, the recognition engine can send to thecontent unit 112 through the recognition interface 158 and the contentinterface 134 one or more indications of what one or moreclassifications of information should be provided to the display unit124 (see FIG. 9) for display).

An exemplary implementation of the operation 12072 may include one ormore selection display modules 375 directing display such as displayingon one or more portions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice in response to the selected one or more of the classifications ofthe second information having one or more classifications (e.g. thedisplay control 202 (see FIG. 9) of the display unit 124 may directdisplay hardware 204 to display on the display surface 610 through thesurface layer 608 a (see FIG. 21) information 620 having a “private”classification (see FIG. 23) and to display on the display surface 612through the surface layer 608 c (see FIG. 21) information 622 having a“public” classification (see FIG. 23) in response to selecting basedupon the comparisons of the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5).

FIG. 46

FIG. 46 illustrates an example implementation of the exemplary operationO12 of FIG. 34 where the operation O12 includes, for example, operationO1208, which may be executed generally by, in some instances, thedisplay unit 114 of FIG. 9. For instance, in some implementations, theexemplary operation O12 may include the operation of O1208 that mayinclude the operation O12081 for one or more non-classificationselection modules configured to direct selecting other than one or moreof the classifications of the second information having one or moreclassifications and the operation O12082 for one or more other selectiondisplay modules configured to direct displaying on one or more portionsof the flexible interface containing electronic device in response tothe selected other than one or more of the classifications of the secondinformation having one or more classifications.

An exemplary implementation of the operation 12081 may include one ormore non-classification selection modules 376 of FIG. 12 directingselection such as one or more non-classification selection modulesconfigured to direct selecting other than one or more of theclassifications of the second information having one or moreclassifications (e.g. the selection 626 between TV, PDA, cell phone,notebook PC, and eBook functionality (see FIG. 24) may be obtained sothat other than one or more of the classifications of the secondinformation is selected as a consequence by having the recognitionengine 156 (see FIG. 5) use sensor information from one or more of thesensors 614 (see FIG. 24) in conjunction with predeterminedconfiguration data stored in the conformation memory 200 (see FIG. 8) torecognize a predetermined conformation, which can then be used by theapplication control 166 (see FIG. 6) of the application unit 118 toselect a functionality per data stored in the application memory 176)associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of oneor more regions of the electronic paper assembly or other flexibleinterface containing electronic device (e.g. the conformation of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 including the region 604a and the region 604 b as illustrated in FIG. 24).

An exemplary implementation of the operation 12082 may include one ormore other display modules 377 of FIG. 12 directing display such asdisplaying on one or more portions of one or more of the regions such asthe regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102of FIG. 20 in response to the selected other than one or more of theclassifications of the second information having one or moreclassifications (e.g. the display control 202 (see FIG. 9) of thedisplay unit 124 may direct display hardware 204 to display on one ormore of the regions such as the regions 604 of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20 some informationregarding the selection 626 in response to selecting based upon thecomparisons of the recognition engine 156 (see FIG. 5) in which in someimplementations the displayed information is unrelated to the “public”or “private” classification illustrated by FIG. 23).

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the foregoing specificexemplary processes and/or devices and/or technologies arerepresentative of more general processes and/or devices and/ortechnologies taught elsewhere herein, such as in the claims filedherewith and/or elsewhere in the present application.

A partial view of a system S100 is shown in FIG. 47 that includes acomputer program S104 for executing a computer process on a computingdevice. An implementation of the system S100 is provided using asignal-bearing medium S102 bearing one or more instructions for one ormore conformation sensor modules configured to direct acquisition offirst information associated with one or more changes in one or moreconformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of aflexible interface containing electronic device. An exemplaryimplementation may include obtaining (e.g. obtaining may be performedthrough one or more of the sensors 614 (see FIG. 23) as exemplaryimplementations of the sensor 144 (see FIG. 4)) first information (e.g.a particular angle of bend 624 (see FIG. 23) of the exemplaryimplementation 602 of the e-paper 102) associated with one or moreconformations (e.g. the one or more of the sensors 614 as exemplaryimplementations of the sensor 144 may relay the information about theangle of bend 624 through the sensor interface 146 (see FIG. 4) to therecognition unit 166 (see FIG. 5) through the recognition interface 158where the recognition engine 156 may determine that the angle of bend624 is associated with one or more conformations as retrieved from theconformation memory 200 (see FIG. 8) through the conformation interface194) of one or more portions of one or more regions (e.g. the region 604a and the region 604 b (see FIGS. 22 and 23) are angularly oriented withone another along the border 606 a) of the electronic paper assembly orother flexible interface containing electronic device (e.g. of theimplementation 602 (see FIGS. 22 and 23) of the e-paper 102).

The implementation of the system S100 is also provided using asignal-bearing medium S102 bearing one or more instructions for one ormore display control modules configured to direct control of display ofone or more portions of the flexible interface containing electronicdevice regarding display of second information having one or moreclassifications in response to the first information associated with theone or more changes in the one or more conformations of the one or moreportions of the one or more regions of the flexible interface containingelectronic device. An exemplary implementation may include controllingdisplay (e.g. the display control 202 can control the display hardware204 (see FIG. 9) to display information on the region 604 a and theregion 604 b (see FIG. 23)) of one or more portions of one or moreregions such as the regions 604 of the exemplary implementation 602 ofthe e-paper 102 of FIG. 20 or other electronic paper assembly or otherflexible display containing electronic device regarding display ofsecond information having one or more classifications (e.g. informationcontained in the content storage 132 of the content unit 112 (see FIG.3)) having a predetermined classification (e.g. “private” (see FIG. 23)displayed from one or more of the regions such as the regions 604 of theexemplary implementation 602 of the e-paper 102 of FIG. 20 and having apredetermined classification (e.g. “public” (see FIG. 23) from thesurface layer 608 c (see FIGS. 21 and 23) having the display surface610) in response to the first information associated with the one ormore conformations of the one or more portions of the one or moreregions of the electronic paper (e.g. the display control 202 (see FIG.9) may control display in response to communication through the displayinterface 206 with the recognition unit 116 (see FIG. 5) through therecognition interface 158 for recognized present conformation (such asthe partially folded conformation of FIG. 23) and communication throughthe display interface with the content unit 112 (see FIG. 3) through thecontent interface 134 for information of appropriate “public” and“private” content.

The one or more instructions may be, for example, computer executableand/or logic-implemented instructions. In some implementations, thesignal-bearing medium S102 may include a computer-readable medium S106.In some implementations, the signal-bearing medium S102 may include arecordable medium S108. In some implementations, the signal-bearingmedium S102 may include a communication medium S110.

Those having ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the state ofthe art has progressed to the point where there is little distinctionleft between hardware and software implementations of aspects ofsystems; the use of hardware or software is generally (but not always,in that in certain contexts the choice between hardware and software canbecome significant) a design choice representing cost vs. efficiencytradeoffs. Those having skill in the art will appreciate that there arevarious vehicles by which processes and/or systems and/or othertechnologies described herein can be effected (e.g., hardware, software,and/or firmware), and that the preferred vehicle will vary with thecontext in which the processes and/or systems and/or other technologiesare deployed. For example, if an implementer determines that speed andaccuracy are paramount, the implementer may opt for a mainly hardwareand/or firmware vehicle; alternatively, if flexibility is paramount, theimplementer may opt for a mainly software implementation; or, yet againalternatively, the implementer may opt for some combination of hardware,software, and/or firmware. Hence, there are several possible vehicles bywhich the processes and/or devices and/or other technologies describedherein may be effected, none of which is inherently superior to theother in that any vehicle to be utilized is a choice dependent upon thecontext in which the vehicle will be deployed and the specific concerns(e.g., speed, flexibility, or predictability) of the implementer, any ofwhich may vary. Those skilled in the art will recognize that opticalaspects of implementations will typically employ optically-orientedhardware, software, and or firmware.

The foregoing detailed description has set forth various embodiments ofthe devices and/or processes via the use of block diagrams, flowcharts,and/or examples. Insofar as such block diagrams, flowcharts, and/orexamples contain one or more functions and/or operations, it will beunderstood by those within the art that each function and/or operationwithin such block diagrams, flowcharts, or examples can be implemented,individually and/or collectively, by a wide range of hardware, software,firmware, or virtually any combination thereof. In one embodiment,several portions of the subject matter described herein may beimplemented via Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), digital signal processors (DSPs), orother integrated formats. However, those skilled in the art willrecognize that some aspects of the embodiments disclosed herein, inwhole or in part, can be equivalently implemented in integratedcircuits, as one or more computer programs running on one or morecomputers (e.g., as one or more programs running on one or more computersystems), as one or more programs running on one or more processors(e.g., as one or more programs running on one or more microprocessors),as firmware, or as virtually any combination thereof, and that designingthe circuitry and/or writing the code for the software and or firmwarewould be well within the skill of one of skill in the art in light ofthis disclosure. In addition, those skilled in the art will appreciatethat the mechanisms of the subject matter described herein are capableof being distributed as a program product in a variety of forms, andthat an illustrative embodiment of the subject matter described hereinapplies regardless of the particular type of signal bearing medium usedto actually carry out the distribution. Examples of a signal bearingmedium include, but are not limited to, the following: a recordable typemedium such as a floppy disk, a hard disk drive, a Compact Disc (CD), aDigital Video Disk (DVD), a digital tape, a computer memory, etc.; and atransmission type medium such as a digital and/or an analogcommunication medium (e.g., a fiber optic cable, a waveguide, a wiredcommunications link, a wireless communication link, etc.).

In a general sense, those skilled in the art will recognize that thevarious aspects described herein which can be implemented, individuallyand/or collectively, by a wide range of hardware, software, firmware, orany combination thereof can be viewed as being composed of various typesof “electrical circuitry.” Consequently, as used herein “electricalcircuitry” includes, but is not limited to, electrical circuitry havingat least one discrete electrical circuit, electrical circuitry having atleast one integrated circuit, electrical circuitry having at least oneapplication specific integrated circuit, electrical circuitry forming ageneral purpose computing device configured by a computer program (e.g.,a general purpose computer configured by a computer program which atleast partially carries out processes and/or devices described herein,or a microprocessor configured by a computer program which at leastpartially carries out processes and/or devices described herein),electrical circuitry forming a memory device (e.g., forms of randomaccess memory), and/or electrical circuitry forming a communicationsdevice (e.g., a modem, communications switch, or optical-electricalequipment). Those having skill in the art will recognize that thesubject matter described herein may be implemented in an analog ordigital fashion or some combination thereof.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that it is commonwithin the art to describe devices and/or processes in the fashion setforth herein, and thereafter use engineering practices to integrate suchdescribed devices and/or processes into data processing systems. Thatis, at least a portion of the devices and/or processes described hereincan be integrated into a data processing system via a reasonable amountof experimentation. Those having skill in the art will recognize that atypical data processing system generally includes one or more of asystem unit housing, a video display device, a memory such as volatileand non-volatile memory, processors such as microprocessors and digitalsignal processors, computational entities such as operating systems,drivers, graphical user interfaces, and applications programs, one ormore interaction devices, such as a touch pad or screen, and/or controlsystems including feedback loops and control motors (e.g., feedback forsensing position and/or velocity; control motors for moving and/oradjusting components and/or quantities). A typical data processingsystem may be implemented utilizing any suitable commercially availablecomponents, such as those typically found in datacomputing/communication and/or network computing/communication systems.

The herein described subject matter sometimes illustrates differentcomponents contained within, or connected with, different othercomponents. It is to be understood that such depicted architectures aremerely exemplary, and that in fact many other architectures can beimplemented which achieve the same functionality. In a conceptual sense,any arrangement of components to achieve the same functionality iseffectively “associated” such that the desired functionality isachieved. Hence, any two components herein combined to achieve aparticular functionality can be seen as “associated with” each othersuch that the desired functionality is achieved, irrespective ofarchitectures or intermedial components. Likewise, any two components soassociated can also be viewed as being “operably connected”, or“operably coupled”, to each other to achieve the desired functionality,and any two components capable of being so associated can also be viewedas being “operably couplable”, to each other to achieve the desiredfunctionality. Specific examples of operably couplable include but arenot limited to physically mateable and/or physically interactingcomponents and/or wirelessly interactable and/or wirelessly interactingcomponents and/or logically interacting and/or logically interactablecomponents.

While particular aspects of the present subject matter described hereinhave been shown and described, it will be apparent to those skilled inthe art that, based upon the teachings herein, changes and modificationsmay be made without departing from the subject matter described hereinand its broader aspects and, therefore, the appended claims are toencompass within their scope all such changes and modifications as arewithin the true spirit and scope of the subject matter described herein.Furthermore, it is to be understood that the invention is defined by theappended claims.

It will be understood by those within the art that, in general, termsused herein, and especially in the appended claims (e.g., bodies of theappended claims) are generally intended as “open” terms (e.g., the term“including” should be interpreted as “including but not limited to,” theterm “having” should be interpreted as “having at least,” the term“includes” should be interpreted as “includes but is not limited to,”etc.). It will be further understood by those within the art that if aspecific number of an introduced claim recitation is intended, such anintent will be explicitly recited in the claim, and in the absence ofsuch recitation no such intent is present. For example, as an aid tounderstanding, the following appended claims may contain usage of theintroductory phrases “at least one” and “one or more” to introduce claimrecitations. However, the use of such phrases should not be construed toimply that the introduction of a claim recitation by the indefinitearticles “a” or “an” limits any particular claim containing suchintroduced claim recitation to inventions containing only one suchrecitation, even when the same claim includes the introductory phrases“one or more” or “at least one” and indefinite articles such as “a” or“an” (e.g., “a” and/or “an” should typically be interpreted to mean “atleast one” or “one or more”); the same holds true for the use ofdefinite articles used to introduce claim recitations.

In addition, even if a specific number of an introduced claim recitationis explicitly recited, those skilled in the art will recognize that suchrecitation should typically be interpreted to mean at least the recitednumber (e.g., the bare recitation of “two recitations,” without othermodifiers, typically means at least two recitations, or two or morerecitations). Furthermore, in those instances where a conventionanalogous to “at least one of A, B, and C, etc.” is used, in generalsuch a construction is intended in the sense one having skill in the artwould understand the convention (e.g., “a system having at least one ofA, B, and C” would include but not be limited to systems that have Aalone, B alone, C alone, A and B together, A and C together, B and Ctogether, and/or A, B, and C together, etc.).

In those instances where a convention analogous to “at least one of A,B, or C, etc.” is used, in general such a construction is intended inthe sense one having skill in the art would understand the convention(e.g., “a system having at least one of A, B, or C” would include butnot be limited to systems that have A alone, B alone, C alone, A and Btogether, A and C together, B and C together, and/or A, B, and Ctogether, etc.). It will be further understood by those within the artthat virtually any disjunctive word and/or phrase presenting two or morealternative terms, whether in the description, claims, or drawings,should be understood to contemplate the possibilities of including oneof the terms, either of the terms, or both terms. For example, thephrase “A or B” will be understood to include the possibilities of “A”or “B” or “A and B.”

All of the above U.S. patents, U.S. patent application publications,U.S. patent applications, foreign patents, foreign patent applicationsand non-patent publications referred to in this specification and/orlisted in any Application Data Sheet, are incorporated herein byreference, to the extent not inconsistent herewith.

What is claimed is:
 1. A system comprising: circuitry configured forreceiving information associated with one or more conformations of oneor more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly; andcircuitry configured for activating, at least partly in response torecognizing one or more predetermined conformations using at least someof the information associated with one or more conformations of one ormore portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly, at leastone phone application that enables phone functionality using the atleast one electronic paper assembly.
 2. The system of claim 1, whereinthe circuitry configured for receiving information associated with oneor more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronicpaper assembly comprises: circuitry configured for receiving, from oneor more sensors, information associated with one or more conformationsof one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly. 3.The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receivinginformation associated with one or more conformations of one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitryconfigured for receiving location information associated with one ormore conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronicpaper assembly.
 4. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitryconfigured for receiving information associated with one or moreconformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paperassembly comprises: circuitry configured for receiving strain and/orstress information associated with one or more conformations of one ormore portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.
 5. The systemof claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receiving informationassociated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of atleast one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitry configured forreceiving pattern information associated with one or more conformationsof one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly. 6.The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receivinginformation associated with one or more conformations of one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitryconfigured for receiving sequence information associated with one ormore conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronicpaper assembly.
 7. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitryconfigured for receiving information associated with one or moreconformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paperassembly comprises: circuitry configured for receiving angle informationassociated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of atleast one electronic paper assembly.
 8. The system of claim 1, whereinthe circuitry configured for receiving information associated with oneor more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronicpaper assembly comprises: circuitry configured for receiving radiusinformation associated with one or more conformations of one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly.
 9. The system ofclaim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receiving informationassociated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of atleast one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitry configured forreceiving geometrical information associated with one or moreconformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paperassembly.
 10. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configuredfor receiving information associated with one or more conformations ofone or more portions of at least one electronic paper assemblycomprises: circuitry configured for receiving connection informationassociated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of atleast one electronic paper assembly.
 11. The system of claim 1, whereinthe circuitry configured for receiving information associated with oneor more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronicpaper assembly comprises: circuitry configured for receiving hingestatus information associated with one or more conformations of one ormore portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.
 12. The systemof claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receiving informationassociated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of atleast one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitry configured forreceiving ratio information associated with one or more conformations ofone or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.
 13. Thesystem of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receivinginformation associated with one or more conformations of one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitryconfigured for receiving information associated with force imparted uponone or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.
 14. Thesystem of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receivinginformation associated with one or more conformations of one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitryconfigured for receiving information associated with one or more bendsand/or folds of one or more portions of at least one electronic paperassembly.
 15. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configuredfor receiving information associated with one or more conformations ofone or more portions of at least one electronic paper assemblycomprises: circuitry configured for receiving information associatedwith one or more rolls of one or more portions of at least oneelectronic paper assembly.
 16. The system of claim 1, wherein thecircuitry configured for receiving information associated with one ormore conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronicpaper assembly comprises: circuitry configured for receiving informationassociated with one or more surface contacts with respect to one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly.
 17. The system ofclaim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receiving informationassociated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of atleast one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitry configured forreceiving information associated with one or more scraping actions withrespect to one or more portions of at least one electronic paperassembly.
 18. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configuredfor receiving information associated with one or more conformations ofone or more portions of at least one electronic paper assemblycomprises: circuitry configured for receiving information associatedwith one or more persistent conformations of one or more portions of atleast one electronic paper assembly.
 19. The system of claim 1, whereinthe circuitry configured for receiving information associated with oneor more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronicpaper assembly comprises: circuitry configured for receiving informationassociated with one or more transient conformations of one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly.
 20. The system ofclaim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receiving informationassociated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of atleast one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitry configured forreceiving information associated with one or more conformations alongone or more borders of one or more regions of at least one electronicpaper assembly.
 21. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitryconfigured for receiving information associated with one or moreconformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paperassembly comprises: circuitry configured for receiving informationassociated with one or more conformations within one or more regions ofat least one electronic paper assembly.
 22. The system of claim 1,further comprising: circuitry for outputting information classified aspublic for display from at least one portion of the at least oneelectronic paper assembly.
 23. The system of claim 1, furthercomprising: circuitry for outputting, at least partly in response toactivation of the at least one phone application, at least someinformation associated with the at least one phone application fordisplay on at least one of two or more display layers of the at leastone electronic paper assembly.
 24. The system of claim 1, furthercomprising: circuitry for outputting, at least partly in response toactivation of the at least one phone application, at least someinformation associated with the at least one phone application fordisplay using two or more display layers of the at least one electronicpaper assembly.
 25. The system of claim 1, further comprising: circuitryfor outputting, at least partly in response to activation of the atleast one phone application, at least some information associated withthe at least one phone application for display from at least one of twoor more display surfaces of the at least one electronic paper assembly.26. The system of claim 1, further comprising: circuitry for outputting,at least partly in response to activation of the at least one phoneapplication, at least some information associated with the at least onephone application for display from at least one of two or more displayregions of the at least one electronic paper assembly.
 27. The system ofclaim 1, further comprising: circuitry for detecting the informationassociated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of theat least one electronic paper assembly.
 28. The system of claim 1,wherein the circuitry configured for receiving information associatedwith one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least oneelectronic paper assembly comprises: circuitry configured for receivinginformation associated with one or more conformations of one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly that includes atleast one of the following display types: electrophoretic,electrowetting, twist ball, liquid crystal, organic light emittingdiode, liquid powder, flexible transistor array, light emitting diode,and electrofluidic.
 29. The system of claim 1, further comprising:circuitry for outputting, at least partly in response to activation ofthe at least one phone application, one or more control featuresassociated with the at least one phone application for display from atleast one portion of the at least one electronic paper assembly.
 30. Thesystem of claim 1, further comprising: circuitry for outputting, atleast partly in response to activation of the at least one phoneapplication, one or more control features associated with the at leastone phone application for display from at least one touch screen portionof the at least one electronic paper assembly.
 31. The system of claim1, wherein the circuitry configured for activating, at least partly inresponse to recognizing one or more predetermined conformations using atleast some of the information associated with one or more conformationsof one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly,at least one phone application that enables phone functionality usingthe at least one electronic paper assembly comprises: circuitryconfigured for activating (i) at least one phone application thatenables phone functionality using the at least one electronic paperassembly at least partly in response to recognizing one or more firstpredetermined conformations and (ii) at least one other application atleast partly in response to recognizing one or more other predeterminedconformations.
 32. A system comprising: at least one article ofmanufacture bearing one or more instructions for facilitating operationsincluding at least: receiving information associated with one or moreconformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paperassembly; and activating, at least partly in response to recognizing oneor more predetermined conformations using at least some of theinformation associated with one or more conformations of one or moreportions of the at least one electronic paper assembly, at least onephone application that enables phone functionality using the at leastone electronic paper assembly.
 33. A method comprising: receivinginformation associated with one or more conformations of one or moreportions of at least one electronic paper assembly; and activating,using one or more processing components and at least partly in responseto recognizing one or more predetermined conformations using at leastsome of the information associated with one or more conformations of oneor more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly, at leastone phone application that enables phone functionality using the atleast one electronic paper assembly.